waste 2009 recession
gyres Whirlpool: ships cannot get out. Plastic NOT biodegradable, absorb fat-soluble PCB, DDT!
Anyone go fishing? nets/lines/float; six-pack rings overblown. 100K pieces/square km. Coriolis effect (carousel analogy) Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic An ocean of plastic (Charles Moore on CBS March 4, 2012)
gyre_food Laysan: Hawaii island, "Koore" west; plastic bag mistaken 4 jellyfish Kure Atoll Conservancy
disposal I used to be BAG. Curbside, blue bag -> blue cart TD788 .T737 2007 Trashed Payatas garbage dump (Philippines) Freecycle: donate (and get) used stuff
composting Green: livestock (herbivore) manure, NOT pet; CAREFUL food waste: meat. Sevierville, Tennessee facility. Edmonton IPTF and Compost Facility
landfill Not garbage dump; soil speeds decomp. Cap: plastic, gravel, soil. Anaerobic methane. Fresh Kills, Staten Island: Then and Now César Chávez Park built on landfill Landfill Harmonic in Cateura, Paraguay (60 Minutes)
incineration Expensive, NIMBY.
industrial_ecology Denmark 40 cents/kwh; Naperville cost: 9 cents/KWH. Industrial ecology in Kalundborg, Denmark
choice Bring chopsticks
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Giora Proskurowski North Atlantic garbage. Phnom Pen, Cambodia’s municipal garbage dump.

Process electronic waste in China, banned in U.S.